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Some European Parliament's members joined Saharawis in their condemnation to Human rights violations in Western Sahara


08.03.05




Aousserd (refugees camps) 08/03/2005 (SPS) Some European Parliament's members and members of the different Spanish Parliaments signed, Sunday in Aousserd during a sit-in organised by Saharawi ONGs, a petition of "unconditional support to the struggle of Saharawi population" under Moroccan occupation, condemning the " Moroccan media campaigns, which promulgate libel and falsehood on Saharawi refugees".

The collect of signatures was marked by the "signature of the petition by 6 European Parliament members and 6 members of Spanish Parliament of the different Parliamentary groups, who are undertaking a four days visit to SADR, underlined a press release publicised Monday by the Union of Saharawi Journalists and Writers (UPES), the Association of Saharawi Families of Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) and the Union of Saharawi Jurists (UJS).

The text was also signed by more than "sixty writers and stars of Cinema as well as more than 200 hundreds journalists, lawyers, engineers, professors, doctors, students, technicians, businessmen and supporters of Saharawi cause, from different nationalities", Spanish for their majority, who are present in the refugees camps to take part to the 2nd International Festival of the Cinema of the Sahara, which took place in Aousserd from the 3rd to the 6th March in Aousserd.

The petition, it should be recalled, condemns "Moroccan media campaigns, which promulgate libel and falsehood on Saharawi refugees aiming at diverting the international public opinion's attention away from the real problem of Saharawi people, which is no more than the persistence of the colonisation of its territory by Morocco".

It called United Nations to organise a referendum on self-determination for Saharawi people "with no more delays", and the stopping of Moroccan violations of the human rights of Saharawi citizens under occupation as well as the release of Saharawi political prisoners and prisoners of war still under detention.

The text condemns "Moroccan military forces' upholding of the Wall of Shame, which sustains the sufferings of Saharawi families separated since the erection of this crime against humanity in the 80ies".  (SPS)

060/090/000 081545 MAR 05 SPS
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OCUPIED TERRITORIES/MOROCCO/SIT-IN
Sit-in of Saharawi human right activists' women






El Aaiun (occupied territories) 08/03/2005 (SPS)Saharawi human right activists' women organised, last Saturday, a sit-in in front of "Negjir" hotel in El Aaiun to protest against the visit planed for by the "coalition watanuna" (an organisation of the Makhzen) to the Saharawi capital so as "to honour" Saharawi women on the occasion of the 8 of March.
 
A Saharawi ex-detainee, rescue of Moroccan secret jails, Mrs. Aminatu Haidar, estimated that she is leading a "struggle for dignity" and that this fight will not end before the responsible for human right violations be judged and chastised".

The demonstrators distributed a press release in which they condemned "flagrant human rights committed by Moroccan Government during the last 30 years of occupation against Saharawis in occupied territories of Western Sahara and in the south of Morocco".

The press release claimed for the publishing of the names of the "criminals", "to draw light on the fate of Saharawi persons reported missing and to release political detainees still imprisoned in Moroccan jails", adding that Saharawi women will continue "claiming her legitimate rights whatever the price to give is".

The demonstration was attended by the Rafto price for human right, Sidi Mohamed daddach, and other famous Saharawi activists such as Ali Salem Tamek and El Ghalia Jimi, as well as an important number of supporters.

On another hand, the National Union of Saharawi Women launched an appeal on the occasion of the 8 of Mars to all democratic women around the world so as to "demand the respect of international legality in Western Sahara" and allow Saharawi people exercise its right to self-determination and independence conforming to the Baker Plan.  (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 081431 Mars 05 SPS
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Morocco still rejects to give the smallest information on Saharawi prisoners of war, deplored Saharawi Government




Bir Lehlu (liberated Territories), 08/03/2005 (SPS) Saharawi Government deplored that Morocco still refuse giving the smallest information on Saharawi prisoners of war, in a moment when it organises a masquerade demonstration in Rabat to claim for the release of a small group of Moroccan prisoners, knowing that Polisario Front had already released more than 70 persons of them.

Here is the complete text of the communiqué of the Minister of information commenting this demonstration.

"For more than 3 decades Morocco leads a war of aggression against Saharawi people, to the disregard of the international law. This war imposed indescribable sufferings and enormous sacrifices on Saharawi people, many of whom were forced to exile not to mention tens of thousands dead, injured, prisoners as well as hundreds persons reported missing and political prisoners.
 
Morocco had always attempted to deny this reality. It refuses to give ICRC the less information on Saharawi prisoners of war or on the fate of persons reported missing, to this date. Further, did not Morocco refuse, until a recent date, to receive its own soldiers Polisario Front released?

That is to say that the demonstration, organised last Sunday in Rabat on the cost of huge propaganda and efforts paid by Moroccan Government in favour of the release of Moroccan prisoners in Western Sahara, constitutes the most possibly official recognition from Rabat of the armed conflict that opposed for 16 years Moroccan forces of aggression and Saharawi Liberation Army. We felicitate our selves of this recognition of belligerency.
 
We would have liked, and the international community too, that beyond this recognition Moroccan Government shows a new availability to allow the solution of the conflict opposing it to Saharawi people, so far, by accepting the enforcement of the Peace Plan for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, which is the reflection of the reality on the ground: Which is no more than Saharawi unanimous rejection of occupation and of Moroccan fait accompli.

By adopting this way, Morocco will contribute to the solution of the tragedy of its prisoners, of persons reported missing and of refugees, a situation that prevails on the region since 1975. In this respect; it will find full availability of Saharawi authorities not only to exchange prisoners of war but also to build relations of friendship and cooperation to the benefit of the Moroccan and Saharawi peoples and to the entire Maghreb region.
 
Nonetheless, everything indicates that this march, and others that preceded it, have for unique goal to mislead the Moroccan public opinion of its real preoccupations. The internal front cracks and the difficulties of all sorts accumulates added to the clear failure in daunting Saharawi resistance, the failure of the efforts aiming at implicating an other country of the region in the conflict and the failure to legitimise the occupation at the international level.
 
We seize this occasion to launch an urgent appeal to the international community and to the Security Council in particular so as to use their influence to push Morocco put an end to its rebellion against international legality and accept to cooperate to the enforcement of the peace plan of the UN for the self-determination of the Saharawi people".
. (SPS)

020/090/100/TRD 081637 MARS 05 SPS





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Morocco/SIT-IN/REPRESSION
Moroccan police shoots demonstrating Saharawi students in Rabat



Rabat, 08/03/2005 (SPS) Moroccan police shot, on Tuesday at 17.00 (GMT+1) some Saharawi students, who were organising a demonstration in a University campus in the neighbourhood of "Al Irvan" in Rabat, reported SPS correspondent on the ground.

The police immediately shot the demonstrators, who were claiming Saharawi people right to self-determination and the release of Saharawi prisoners and political detainees.
 
Eyewitnesses affirmed having seen injured fall to the ground as a result to the firing, and that they were able to get up again on their feet.
 
Students on the ground named 16 injured persons : Leghzal El Houssein, Iccharafi Khatri, Dahmi Mohamed Fadel, Saleh Smail, who was injured in his feet and Said Beillal, injured at the level of his hand and save by his friends from an attempt of arrest. The rooms of the girls were also attacked, indicated the same source, who reported the incomplete names of the girls: Muna, Mariam and Khouta.

Other victims such as Doub Mohamed, Bainnahi Boujama, Saleh Allaoui, Bounaaj Mohamed Salem, Assalhi Nafi, El Ghailani Mansour, El Ghailani Mohamed, Boubrik Boushab, Aba Ali Lemam, Saleh Smail, whose injuries were not exactly defined, were also named.
 
"Moroccan authorities also attacked Saharawi students’ rooms in other university campus in Rabat such as Suissi I and Suissi II, and are still pursuing students by all means", indicated the same source. (SPS)

010/090/100 081825 MARS 05 SPS


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